Miles Davis

Genres:	Documentaries • Drama • Foreign Films • Funk • Jazz • Music & Radio • Music Videos & Concerts • Pop / Rock • Television
Descriptive "tags":	jazz • trumpet • fusion • bebop • blues
Decades Active:	1950s • 1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s

Biography

Miles Dewy Davis, 25 May 1926, Alton, Illinois, USA, d. 28 September 1991, Santa Monica, California, USA. Davis was born into a comparatively wealthy middle-class family and both his mother and sister were capable musicians. He was given a trumpet for his thirteenth birthday by his dentist father, who could not have conceived that his gift would set his son on the road to becoming a giant figure in the development of jazz. Notwithstanding his outstanding talent as master of the trumpet, Davis’ versatility encompassed flügelhorn and keyboards together with a considerable gift as a composer. This extraordinary list of talents earned Davis an unassailable reputation as the greatest leader/catalyst in the history of jazz. Such accolades were not used lightly, and he can justifiably be termed a ‘musical genius’. Davis quickly progressed from his high school band into Eddie Randall’s band in 1941, after his family had moved to St. Louis. He...

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